Chisos Mountains, Northwest Face
Artist
Alexandre Hogue
(American, 1898 - 1994)
Date1979
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensions38 × 56 inches (96.5 × 142.2 cm)
Frame: 43 5/8 × 62 × 2 inches (110.8 × 157.5 × 5.1 cm)
Frame: 43 5/8 × 62 × 2 inches (110.8 × 157.5 × 5.1 cm)
Credit LinePurchase of the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, 2002
Object number31.255.1
ClassificationsPaintings
Label TextHogue’s art reveals a concern with the environment. Early in his career, he painted landscapes of the Dust Bowl. He portrayed the devastating effects of erosion, intensified by human activity. Later, he produced a series of paintings celebrating the stark beauty of Big Bend. In this depiction of the Chisos Mountains, he abstracts landscape features into simple shapes. He used bold colors, red for the low hills, and cold blue for the mountains. He painted a recognizable landscape, but intensified its other-worldly feeling with artistic choices.
ProvenanceArtist [1]; Private Collection, Boca Raton, Florida, 1984-2001; purchased September 12, 2002 through (Cline Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico) by the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation; accessioned to the Stark Museum of Art
| 1. The painting had been in a traveling exhibition and it was published in the catalogue that accompanied the exhibition. Both Hogue paintings in the Stark Museum of Art collection, 31.255.1 and 31.255.2, are reproduced in that catalogue and both are cited as in the collection of the artist at that the time of the publication {DeLong, Lea Rosson. Nature's forms/nature's forces: the art of Alexandre Hogue. Tulsa, Okla.: Philbrook/ University of Oklahoma Press, c. 1984. x, 211 p.}.
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